Rolf T. Wigand is Maulden-Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Information Science and Business Information Systems at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the past director of the Syracuse University Graduate Program in Information Management and their Center for Digital Commerce. His research focuses on software standards development and collective action in the mortgage, automotive, and RFID industries, development of trust and leadership in virtual organizations, the analysis of social networks in disaster situations, and novel methods for analysis and tracking of collective action on social media.